# Bobsleigh at the 1928 Winter Olympics

At the 1928 Winter Olympics, only one bobsleigh event was contested, the five man event. The competition was held on Saturday, 18 February 1928.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| United States (USA) USA II Billy Fiske Clifford Gray Geoffrey Mason Richard Parke Nion Tocker | United States (USA) USA I Thomas Doe David Granger Jennison Heaton Lyman Hine Jay O'Brien | Germany (GER) Germany II Hans Heß Sebastian Huber Hanns Kilian Valentin Krempl Hanns Nägle |

## Results

| Place | Team | Bobsledders | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
| 1 | USA II (USA) | Billy Fiske, Nion Tocker, Geoffrey Mason, Clifford Gray, and Richard Parke | 1:38.9 | 1:41.6 | 3:20.5 |
| 2 | USA I (USA) | Jennison Heaton, David Granger, Lyman Hine, Jay O'Brien, and Thomas Doe | 1:42.3 | 1:38.7 | 3:21.0 |
| 3 | Germany II (GER) | Hanns Kilian, Hans Heß, Sebastian Huber, Valentin Krempl, and Hanns Nägle | 1:41.7 | 1:40.2 | 3:21.9 |
| 4 | Argentina I (ARG) | Arturo Gramajo, Ricardo González, Mariano de María, Rafael Iglesias, and John Victor Nash | 1:40.1 | 1:42.5 | 3:22.6 |
| 5 | Argentina II (ARG) | Eduardo Hope, Jorge del Carril, Héctor Milberg, Horacio Iglesias, and Horacio Gramajo | 1:42.3 | 1:40.6 | 3:22.9 |
| 6 | Belgium I (BEL) | Ernest Casimir-Lambert, Walter Jean Ganshof van der Meersch, Marcel Sedille-Courbon, Max Houben, and Léon Tom | 1:39.8 | 1:44.7 | 3:24.5 |
| 7 | Romania II (ROU) | Grigore Socolescu, Ion Gavăț, Traian Nițescu, Toma Ghițulescu, and Mircea Socolescu | 1:43.8 | 1:40.8 | 3:24.6 |
| 8 | Suisse I (SUI) | Charles Stoffel, René Fonjallaz, Henry Höhnes, Emil Coppetti, and Louis Koch | 1:43.1 | 1:42.6 | 3:25.7 |
| 9 | Great Britain II (GBR) | Henry Martineau, Walter Birch, John Dalrymple, John Gee, and Edward Hall | 1:41.7 | 1:44.5 | 3:26.2 |
| 10 | Great Britain I (GBR) | George Pim, Guy Tracey, David Griffith, Frederick Browning, and Thomas Warner | 1:40.6 | 1:45.7 | 3:26.3 |
| 11 | Mexico (MEX) | Lorenzo Elizaga, Juan de Landa, Genaro Díaz Raigosa, Mario Casasos, and José de la Cruz Porfirio Genaro Díaz Raigosa | 1:44.9 | 1:42.8 | 3:27.6 |
| 12 | The Netherlands (NED) | Curt van de Sandt, Jacques Delprat, Edwin Teixeira de Mattos, Henri Dekking, and Hubert Menten | 1:43.5 | 1:45.5 | 3:29.0 |
| 13 | Suisse II (SUI) | Jean Moillen, John Schneiter, René Ansermoz, André Moillen, and William Pichard | 1:41.7 | 1:48.2 | 3:29.9 |
| 14 | France I (FRA) | Jean de Suarez d'Aulan, Michel Baur, Roger Petit-Didier, Jacques Petit-Didier, and William Beamish | 1:43.7 | 1:46.3 | 3:30.0 |
| 15 | France II (FRA) | André Dubonnet, Bertrand du Pontavice de Heussey, Joseph Dedeyn, Stéphane de la Rochefoucault, and Jacques Rheins | 1:45.7 | 1:44.5 | 3:30.2 |
| 16 | Belgium II (BEL) | Charles Mulder, Hubert Kryn, Ferdinand Hubert, Louis Rooy, and Robert Langlois | 1:45.0 | 1:46.2 | 3:31.2 |
| 17 | Poland (POL) | Józef Broel-Plater, Jerzy Bardziński, Jerzy Łucki, Jerzy Potulicki-Skórzewski, and Antoni Bura | 1:44.8 | 1:46.8 | 3:31.6 |
| 18 | Germany I (GER) | Hans-Edgar Endres, Paul Martin, Karl Reinhardt, Paul Volkhardt, and Rudolf Soenning | 1:48.0 | 1:43.9 | 3:31.9 |
| 19 | Romania I (ROU) | Alexandru Berlescu, Eugen Ştefănescu, Petre Petrovici, Tita Rădulescu, and Horia Roman | 1:47.3 | 1:44.9 | 3:32.2 |
| 20 | Luxembourg (LUX) | Marc Schoetter, Raoul Weckbecker, Willy Heldenstein, Pierre Kaempff, and Auguste Hilbert | 1:45.8 | 1:46.9 | 3:32.7 |
| 21 | Italia (ITA) | Giancarlo Morpugo, Carlo Sem, Luigi Cerutti, Giuseppe Crivelli, and Piero Marchetti | 1:45.0 | 1:49.6 | 3:34.6 |
| 22 | Austria II (AUT) | Franz Lorenz, Franz Wohlgemuth, Eduard Pechanda, Benno Karner, and Richard Lorenz | 1:52.3 | 1:49.7 | 3:42.0 |
| — | Austria I (AUT) | Gustav Mader, Hugo Weinstengel, Michael Waissnix, Walter Sehr, and Franz Pamperl | 1:44.2 | DSQ | DSQ |

## Participating nations

A total of 115 bobsledders from 14 nations competed at the St. Moritz Games:
* Austria (10)
* Argentina (10)
* Belgium (10)
* France (10)
* Germany (10)
* Great Britain (10)
* Italy (5)
* Luxembourg (5)
* Mexico (5)
* Netherlands (5)
* Poland (5)
* Romania (10)
* Switzerland (10)
* United States (10)

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (2 entries) | Totals (2 entries) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |